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Adviser for Business & more! Irish Tech News | Celtar Advisers | StartUp Ballymun | Dublin, Ireland. Grower of ideas, businesses, communities - & food. www.linkedin.com/in/billylinehan & https://tidycal.com/celtaradvisers #historymatters
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We visited Dowth on a cold wet February day,least known of 3 principal megalithic passage tombs of the Brú na Bóinne World Heritage Site
No one else there, no buses or queues,
& free
@neiljackman.bsky.social @opwireland.bsky.social
#newgrange #dowth #megalithic #woldheritage
Can't see much logic in using leaf blowers, wind will blow leaves anyway
What It Takes to Defeat the Leaf Blowers?
To end the use of petrol-powered blowers, advocates in one US town focused on public health and made their case directly to local elected leaders.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
What It Takes to Defeat the Leaf Blowers
To end the use of gas-powered blowers, advocates in one New Jersey town focused on public health and made their case directly to local elected leaders.
www.bloomberg.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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For and Against a United Ireland reviewed by Andy Pollak: "I would make this balanced and scrupulous treatment of the great existential issue of this island required reading for every Irish & Northern Irish sixth year school student and first year undergraduate."
A sharp, clear-eyed look at Irish unity from two of the island’s best journalists…
Fintan O’Toole is the nearest thing Ireland gets to a public intellectual: a writer of erudition and intellect who tackles the political and cultural issues of the day and of the nation through a wide...
sluggerotoole.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Today is Sextidi the 26th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate pistachios.#JacobinDay

More information on pistachios
November 15, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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November 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
MOTM Mack Hansen, 3 tries.

Ireland 46 Australia 19

And Boks next week

#irishrugby #irevaus
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced an investigation into unrest during election week,her government violently crushed historic protests.
She won last month's presidential poll with 98% of the vote.Opposition has denounced as a "mockery of democracy."

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan promises probe into post-election unrest
The opposition says that hundreds of people were killed during the unrest but there is no official death toll.
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Catholic Church in Tanzania condemned the recent killings of protesters and warned there would be no peace without justice, as the government calls for dialogue following a disputed general election that international observers say fell short of a free and fair vote. to.pbs.org/485AgLP
Catholic Church in Tanzania condemns the killings of protesters following disputed election
The Catholic Church in Tanzania has condemned the recent killings of protesters and warns that peace requires justice.
to.pbs.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Reshuffle will improve performance?
Paddy McCarthy to make first start for Ireland against Australia
Mack Hansen at fullback while captain Caelan Doris will wear the number seven jersey as the Irish side shows nine changes from the win over Japan
#irishrugby #irelandrugby #rugby #ireaus #irevaus
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Small group at mass for
Pétain,
he was punished with dégradation nationale in 1945,lost his civil and political rights,military rank and honours, state pension and privileges, and formally excluded from national life as someone who had betrayed the French Republic
www.france24.com/fr/info-en-c...
Une messe en hommage à Pétain à Verdun, le préfet va porter plainte pour "propos révisionniste"
Le préfet de la Meuse va porter plainte pour propos révisionnistes tenus en marge d'un hommage rendu samedi "au maréchal Pétain et à ses soldats" dans une église de Verdun, qui a attiré un poignée de…
www.france24.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Always thought one of the 2 CoCI ones might be "given back", gesture of post Reformation reconciliation etc?
And spread the cost of upkeep.
But, who am I to say so.
November 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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What is wrong with Ireland’s #housing & #planning system?

Discussion with @hlinehan.bsky.social @irishtimes.com Inside Politics, @orla-hegarty.bsky.social & Sean Keyes,
Web: shows.acast.com/inside-polit...
Spotify – Web Player
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November 14, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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🎤 What is wrong with Ireland’s #housing & #planning system

My discussion today with Hugh Linehan, @irishtimes.com Inside Politics & Sean Keyes, Progress Ireland #Speirgorm

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0KXu...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...
Web: shows.acast.com/inside-polit...
What is wrong with Ireland’s housing and planning system?
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November 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Hi5 was an early social platform, launched in 2003. Americans mostly ignored it. Big in Latin America & Southeast Asia with tens of millions of users at its peak, today it’s mostly social games & dating.

Check out your favorite websites with the #WaybackMachine: web.archive.org
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#Wayback1T
November 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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'I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man' -- Tom Paine via the great Jill Lepore

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...)
What Was the American Revolution For?
Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the law is still king.
www.newyorker.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Governments have been urged to establish mandatory indoor air quality performance standards and a transparent national system of monitoring and reporting, including universal workplace monitoring and the visible display of real-time indoor air quality data.

Via @croakeynews.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Troy to the World

Ireland 2 Portugal 0
November 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Job opportunity at BirdWatch Ireland! We are recruiting a PeacePlus Finance & Project Manager: the application deadline has been extended to Wednesday 19th November. For full details, see birdwatchireland.ie/get-involved.... PEACEPLUS is supported by the ERDF & the UK & Irish Governments.
PeacePlus Finance and Project Manager - BirdWatch Ireland
birdwatchireland.ie
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Hi @birdwatchireland.bsky.social wonder if these are birdboxes?
Odd at this time of year.
Recently erected near Royal Canal, Blanchardstown
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Manna, Irish Innovation in the Sky
reporting for @irish-tech-news.bsky.social
Coffee from the sky: inside Manna’s drone delivery service in Dublin 15, deliveries no longer arrive by car. They come from above.
#drones
@mannadronedelivery.bsky.social
irishtechnews.ie/manna-irish-...
Manna, Irish Innovation in the Sky
From a launch pad at Blanchardstown Shopping Centre, Irish company Manna Air Delivery has been flying small autonomous drones over the suburb since February
irishtechnews.ie
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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How to avoid 'The Winner’s Curse'
The wider lesson for business is the more bidders there are, the more cautiously you need to bid, Richard Thaler says.

Check out Thaler's new, revised book, The Winner's Curse. It's become part of the canon of behavioral economics
www.npr.org/sections/pla...
How to avoid 'The Winner's Curse'
A new book by the Nobel-winning pioneer of behavioral economics offers some advice we can all use.
www.npr.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Sinn Féin expels member whose partner was arrested in far-right terrorism inquiry

Man arrested on Wednesday, one week after two suspects detained in Laois were charged with explosives offences

www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
Sinn Féin expels member whose partner was arrested in far-right terrorism inquiry
Man arrested on Wednesday, one week after two suspects detained in Laois were charged with explosives offences
www.irishtimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Win! Ireland 2 Portugal 0
Troy Parrott scores twice as Ireland secure stunning win over Portugal
Cristiano Ronaldo sent off as Heimir Hallgrímsson pulls off best win of reign.
Quiet smile from stalwart Seamus Coleman.
Fans delirious with joy at performance, Hungary next!
November 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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There is mass slaughter going on in Darfur – right now. Hundreds killed by the RSF in al-Fashir. 460 executed in one hospital alone. Across Sudan more than 150,000 are dead and 12 million displaced. Killing, rape, and starvation abound. The U.S. must use all leverage to stop the killing. Right now.
November 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM